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I'm catching up on shows from December, and enjoyed the discussion of "iota" which I've used since I was a kid. (I think the Hebrew equivalent might be "yud" which looks like this: '. Although I've never heard a Hebrew phrase of "not one 'yud'" but I'm not a native speaker!)

Anyhow, I saw this article today in the Washington Post: "Palin caught in crosshairs map controversy after Tucson shootings", and later down in the article was this quote from a Republican advisor:

He said Palin needs allies who can "point out repeatedly that the cross hairs are irrelevant. The only thing that's relevant is what Jared Loughner was influenced by, and according to his posting and his videos, there's not an iota of evidence that he was even aware of these things. So you need allies out there saying that."